Nasrallah refused to say on Monday whether the two Israeli soldiers were alive or dead.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that Hezbollah representatives who took part in a meeting of rival Lebanese factions in Paris earlier this month had led him to understand that the two captured soldiers were still alive.
"Not true," Nasrallah said. "Our brothers do not answer to such questions. This is something that is left to negotiations," he said, adding that the group would only give out information in return for a gesture from Israel regarding Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails.
"Why would we offer information in exchange for nothing?" he asked.
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